Why are school holidays so long? Children don’t need a six-week break You know what? This got me thinking. Firstly I thought about my present, as a parent and a working parent at that. Fortunately my wife works in a school and thus child care in the holidays is not an issue for us so …

Fresh food champion Jamie Oliver signs frozen meals deal with Brazilian chicken giant My first through was “what an idiot”. Then I read it and realised he’d actually given this some consideration so my second through changed to “what an absolute idiot”. I simply don’t agree that he had to get into bed with the enemy to …

So we’re in the run up to a general election and one of the hottest bullet points on the various manifestos is the NHS. According to one political party we have just a matter of weeks to save the NHS. Save it from what? The NHS was created in the 1940s, over the 7 decades …

So we’ve just eaten a fish stew I hastily put together using various frozen vegetables, frozen fish, a tin of chopped tomatoes and some herbs. It was absolutely delicious, amazing and beautiful. Helen could eat it again and loved it. That’s the problem. My cooking method is one that avoids recipes and you could say …

As a child I loved to draw and make things. Nothing overly spectacular; I remember the most advanced item I attempted to make was a hovercraft from a lump of polystyrene, some small batter powered motors and fan blade – it was a resoundingly poor effort really but the feeling I remember most is that …

Whilst indolently watching Countryfile on Sunday and simultaneously reading my book (A Free Country, more about this later) my attention was grabbed by the weather forecast that is injected into the program where the weatherperson presenting seems to dress-down when compared with the usual standards of dress for the the BBC weather presenters. On this occasion …

Out on the bike this morning at 6:45 with the sun yet to make an appearance. But it’s presence was felt as it wasn’t dark – I would describe it as incandescent. It’s a beautiful morning and it was poetic to see the sun breach the horizon in the east, it’s illuminating orange light bathing …

Labour pledges infant class size cap I find this an incredulous promise from a political party who seem to be promising to deliver a lot that they failed to deliver when they were last in government. My opinion is that class sizes aren’t the issue – failing apps are the issue. We moved from an …

So pleased, chuffed, excited and proud that my girls and the rest of their sporthall athletics team have just go through to represent their district in the county competition. If you like the website and the content I create please consider buying me a coffee!